The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-09-30
Farm and Garden Notes.

White Plymouth Rocks, white Javas
and white Wyandottes appear to be enjoy
ing a ''boom" as fancy stock.
Fall chickens may be reared as easily
and protitably as spring chickens, in the
opinion Of a Tennessee poultryman.
Are rose bugs poisonous? A farmer is
reported to have given a quart Of them
to his chickens with the result-chickens
all died
Authorities differ as to the best time
to cut hay. AS rule farmers wait too
long before cutting and to strike it just
right requires judgment and experience.
Save the wood ashes to use as fer
tiliZer. 1t is more profitable than to
sell them to the soapmakers. Wood
ashes never come amiss on the farm or in
the garden.
The class Of roses termed hybrid per-
petuals or commonly H. P.'s. while by
no means perpetual boomers, as the name
would seem to signify, are the favorites
among those who love the rose.
If the earth turns up lumpy after the
plough roll and harrow it reasonably
fine at once without waiting for rain. A
light shower which would not moisten
large Jumps will render small ones fit to
moulder as fine as ashes.
Old leather contains considerable per-
centage of ammonia compounds, which,
though said to be insoluble, are, in fact
dispose of old boots, therefore, is to
bury them at the foot of an apple tree.
A box kept we'll supplied with ashes
within reach of hogs all the time at this
Of no oil
ers, they are apt to be troubled with
acidity of the stomach, and the coal and
ashes correct this.
Hogs are excellent cleaners of the
wheat fields We have never observed
any i'll effects upon the animals If there
is plenty of clover and water as well as
some wheat in the field Sheep, on the
other hand, we should hardly care to
trust on the stubbles.
If the air in the cellar is too damp the
dampness can be removed by placing a
peck or so of unslacked lime in an open
box on the floor. 4 peck of unslaclled
lime will absorb about seven pounds, or
more than three quarts of water, and in
this way the air in a cellar can always be
kept dry.
A correspondent of the Sprinfeld Re
1,alblican writes: 1.-The poorest commodity
in farming, with few exceptions, is farm
labor, and those that have the most are
the most afflicted. The old-fashiOned
hired man. that took an interest in his
emplover, and worked from sun to sun
when il was necessary, is almost obsolete.
A new crCU of farm laborers is greatly
needed"
The growth of a calf that is intended
for raising should be pushed from the
time it is weaned until year or so old.
Such treatment not only predisposes the
calf to take on flesh, but the longer 1t is
continued the sooner the animal Will
reach maturity. A few nubbins of corn
or handful or two of oats given daily IN
addition to their grass is the best posi-
BILE food to hasten their growth, and 1t is
lust such a combination as will form flesh
and fat
There is just as much difference in
feeding for eggs as there is in feeding for
lean meat or fat. The farmers wife
complains that her hens don't lay, al
though she gives them all the corn they
will eat. But here is just where the
trouble comes in. The egg is composed
largely of albumen, and to produce 1t
the hen must have albuminous food. She
can't make eggs without albumen any
more than the children of Israel could
make bricks without straw. Feed the
hen on fattening food, such as corn, and
she lines herself with fat, ia kes things
easy, and lays no eggs.